Germany could owe Poland $850 bln in war reparations: MP – media

German officials have said that the issue was definitively settled with Poland in 1953.

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Germany could owe Poland USD 850 billion for damage it inflicted in World War II, the head of a Polish team assessing potential reparations said on Friday.

"We are talking about very large, but justified amounts of compensation for war crimes, for destroyed cities, villages, the lost demographic potential of our country," said Arkadiusz Mularczyk, from Poland's ruling conservative Law and Justice party, according to Radio Poland.

Mularczyk heads a parliamentary team set up in September to assess the amount of potential compensation due from Germany, which invaded Poland in 1939, sparking World War II.